Washing-machine



(No Model.)

L. RYDER.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 587,510. Patented Aug. 3,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

LAFAYETTE RYDER, OF WVOODLAND, CALIFORNIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,510, dated August3, 1897.

Application filed February 19, 1897, Serial No. 624,133. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may co/wcrn:

Be it known that I, LAFAYETTE RYDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Woodland, county of Yolo, State of California, have inventedan Improvement in WVashing-Machines; and I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for washing clothes andlike purposes.

It consists in certain parts and constructions and combinations of partswhich I shall hereinafter describe and claim.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a planview.

A is a box of any suitable dimensions for the purpose, having a shaft Bjournaled across it and a segmental bottom 0, the curvature of which isfrom the center of the shaft. This shaft extends out through the side ofthe box and beyond a journal, so as to allow of an operating-handle Dbeing fixed to it.

I have preferably made the shaft of tubular metal and have fixed a Tupon one end of it for the attachment of the handle. This allows the boxA to be provided with a cover A, which can be opened or closed at will.I have also shown the box extended at one end with an offset beyond themain portion to receive the clothes-wringer.

Upon the shaft 13 and interior to the tub is fixed a hub or block E, andthis block is mortised to receive the radial arms F and F,which projectout from it at an angle from each other, shown in the presentcasesomething less than a right angle.

Within opposite ends of the tub are fixed transverse bars or blocks Gand G, which are removably held in place by notched supports g andpieces g, fixed to the sides of the tub and engaged by the oppositesides of said blocks, as shown. The bars G G are mortised and receivethe pressure-bars II II, projecting from these blocks toward the centerand in alternate longitudinal planes, as shownthat is, the series ofbars extending across one end of the tub have the spaces between them inline with the bars at the opposite end. These pressure-bars are so setthat the arms F adjacent to the bars H will pass between them, and thearms F on the opposite side will pass between the bars H on that side:

The relative positions of the pressure-bars H H are such that when thearms F have passed between the bars II the arms F, being set out of linewith the armsF, will come in contact with the bars H, and will thussqueeze anything which is introduced into the space between the arms Fand F. In the same manner when the shaft is swung in the other directionthe arms F will pass between the bars 11 and the arms F will come incontact with the bars 11, so that any clothes or other articles placedbetween the arms F F will be moved backward and forward over theconcaved bottom 0 and alternately squeezed against the bars H and H bythe action of the arms F and F as they are swung from one side to theother. This agitation alternately subjects the clothes to a pressurewhich squeezes the water out of them, then carries them back through thebottom of the tub, allowing them to be loosened up and again absorb morewater, to be again pressed and the water squeezed out against the bars Hupon the opposite side.

The shaft,with the hub and arms, can be removed at any time to,a1low theclothes to be put into the interior space or removed therefrom by simplyremoving the cover A and lifting these parts out of the box, and thepressure-bars are also easily removable to leave the entire interior ofthe tub unobstructed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, the combination of a stationary tub having thecentral portion of its bottom concave or segmental, a shaft journaledacross the tub,having a hub secured to it, two sets of arms fixed tosaid hub and diverging from one end outwardly so as to form an inclosedspace between them, said arms of one set adapted to stand out of linewith those of the other set, the removable blocks G, G and meanscomprising the notched supports g and pieces 9 projecting from the sidesof the tub for securing said blocks in place, pressure-bars secured tosaid blocks and standing essentially radial from the shaft and arrangedso that the bars at one side are out of line with those at the oppositeside, said bars and arms being so disposed that the arms of one set willpass between the adjacent bars when moved in that direction and theother set of arms will move in line and contact with said bars, and aremovable cover for said tub.

2. In a washing-machine, a stationary tub having a concave segmentalbottom, transverse bars with means for removably holding them atopposite ends of the tub, and a series of bars projecting from themradially toward the center and top of the tub, said bars on one sidestanding in alternate planes with those upon the other side, a centraltubular shaft journaled upon the top of the tub havin g a T, to receivea handle whereby the shaft may be oscillated, a hub fixed to the shaftwithin the tub having two lines of diverging arms projecting downwardlytherefrom, each set of arms adapted to pass between the fixed armsadjacent to it and to contact with those upon the opposite side whenoscillated in the other direction whereby articles placed be tween thediverging arms will be alternately moved from side to side and pressedbetween the arms and the opposing bars.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

LAFAYETTE RYDER.

\Vitn esses:

J. Boees, J. K. SMITH.

